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How to get test messages to test your mail filters
Sending test messages to mailing lists of 500-1000 people
just to test your mail filters is rude, and it's been happening a lot lately.
On the other hand, building interesting mail filters is a
reasonable cypherpunk topic - issues like reputation servers,
email privacy, etc. are relevant technology, though this isn't mailpunx.
So if you want to send us all a test message, it'd be nice
if there were some description of the cool stuff you're implementing :-)
On the other hand, if you just need someone other than yourself to
send you mail, one useful technique is to send email to
[email protected], for some value of wellknownmachine.
Since most machines don't have a user named "bogususer", it'll bounce,
unless of course it's running OS/2, which assumes that email for any
address on the machine is targeted at the real user (or unless it's
running an email system that doesn't implement bouncing...)
At 01:40 AM 3/9/96 -0800, Bryan Koschmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>just a test to see if my filter works..sorry3 for any inconvenience
> Gate|<eepeR (!-=Gate|<eepeR ruLeZ=-!)
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# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, [email protected], +1-415-442-2215 pager 408-787-1281
# "At year's end, however, new government limits on Internet access threatened
# to halt the growth of Internet use. [...] Government control of news media
# generally continues to depend on self-censorship to regulate political and
# social content, but the authorities also consistently penalize those who
# exceed the permissable." - US government statement on China...